{"id":585247,"date":"2023-06-19T09:49:25","date_gmt":"2023-06-19T04:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=585247"},"modified":"2023-06-19T10:32:34","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T05:02:34","slug":"india-will-be-vishwaguru-to-world-on-monopolistic-capitalism-says-p-chidambaram-on-rising-airfares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-will-be-vishwaguru-to-world-on-monopolistic-capitalism-says-p-chidambaram-on-rising-airfares\/","title":{"rendered":"India will be &#8216;Vishwaguru&#8217; to world on monopolistic capitalism, says P Chidambaram on rising airfares"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Sunday took a swipe at the government over rising airfares, saying that in free markets, when demand increases, supply will increase, but in India&#8217;s free market, when demand increases, prices will increase.<\/p>\n<p>The Congress has been attacking the government, demanding concrete action over rising airfares.<\/p>\n<p>In a tweet, Chidambaram said, &#8220;Delhi-Chennai Business Class air tickets on Vistara and Air India have been set at a &#8216;reasonable&#8217; price of Rs 6300 and Rs 5700 respectively. Oops, sorry, they are set at a &#8216;very reasonable&#8217; Rs 63,000 and Rs 57,000 respectively.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Sunday took a swipe at the government over rising airfares, saying that in free markets, when demand increases, supply will increase, but in India&#8217;s free market, when demand increases, prices will increase. The Congress has been attacking the government, demanding concrete action over rising airfares. In a tweet, Chidambaram said, &#8220;Delhi-Chennai Business Class air tickets on Vistara and Air India have been set at a &#8216;reasonable&#8217; price of Rs 6300 and Rs 5700 respectively. Oops, sorry, they are set at a &#8216;very reasonable&#8217; Rs 63,000 and Rs 57,000 respectively.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[176,146,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-585247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}